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Rightly or not, many are saying Mr. Shropshire is attempting to use his newly acquired powers to even the score with Senate Majority Leader Hunter B. Andrews of Hampton, a long-time adversary. Sen. Andrews would have removed Mr. Shropshire as Senate clerk if he could have found the votes. This year Mr. Shropshire apparently helped Gov. Wilder embarass Sen. Andrews in a proposed CSX takeover of the RF&P Railroad.
The appointment that many observers feel could backfire on Gov. Wilder is that of Paul Goldman as leader of the state Democratic Party.
A New York lawyer until his recent return to Virginia, Mr. Goldman is considered both brilliant and mercurial. He was the primary architect of Wilder’s hit-and-run tactics that got him elected as lieutenant-governor, but was kept •far in the background last year in Wilder’s more elaborate and wellfunded gubernatorial campaign.
Mr. Goldman starts with little, if any, credibility among conservative elements of the party and a reputation as a maverick. Many reporters can tell tales of long phone calls from Mr. Goldman over the years in which he espoused any number of theories of state politics and frequently dumped on some of the more conservative Democratic leaders.
Mr. Goldman first entered Virginia politics working for liberal Henry Howell of Norfolk and has flitted in and out of the scene ever
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